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This is a generic solution for full RESTful integration of Liferay 5.1.2 (with FCKEditor 2.6.3) and Alfresco.  By this, we can build Journal Articles with content-rich flashes - e.g., GAME, VIDEO, Slideshow, VIDEO QUEUE, VIDEO LIST, PLAY-LIST, etc - smoothly. Experience VIDEO LIST while you are reading: Enjoy the solution with Real Demo Find detailed information at...

The Portal Pack 3.0 M2 is now available for download. These plug-ins are supported on NetBeans 6.5 Beta or later.    Highlights of the new features added in this release are : Separate instance type called "Liferay Portal Server" Integration with Liferay Portal Server 5.1.x running on Glassfish V2/V3 and Tomcat 5.x/6.x Support for Spring MVC Portlet :...

A solution of SSO plus LDAP for Liferay Portal 5.1.2 and Alfresco Portlet 3.0E with full RESTFul Integration at http://liferay.cignex.com You can play with this at http://liferay.cignex.com. 1. First please download an example Liferay Portal 5.1.2, Alfresco Portlet 3.0.0, LDAP (ADS) and SSO CAS. liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0-5.1.2.zip Download from (save link as ...) ...

The Beauty of Sponsored Development As a company that likes to work very closely with our community, we're often given the opportunity to work on some very interesting (and many times very challenging) features. The following is one such feature being sponsored by one of our marquee partners: Read-Write database splitting. They are planning a Liferay deployment that scales to...

Updated on 11/4/2008 Liferay has role based access control on any item created by different portlet, but the search result doesn't honor the permission but returned all matched item. Only till you clicked on the link then portlet indicated that you don't have permission to view it. In some cases, the summary of search result has already broken the permission if it gave the sensitive...

Announcements/Alerts portlet Through this portlet we can send Announcements/alerts to different types  such as Guests, Organisations, Communities, User Groups, Roles and General (already known and existing). Now, we can send Announcements/alerts to a particular user only (whether he may a part of community or organisation) based on screen names by adding a new type in...

I would like ot share my finding about I18n and L10n in Liferay. I have created blog entry at my personal blog site. How to do Internationalization(I18n) and Localization(L10n) in Liferay ============================================================= Never shy away from re using stuff which already exists ... It gives more time to innovate...

If you have been using the wol portlets you must have noticed that there is no easy way to invite a friend. Currently the way to invite a friend is to go to his/her public profile page and click on the "Add as Friend" link on the summary portlet of the friend. This makes it necessary for you to remember your friend's public profile page URL before you can request him/her to be a...

Hi Everyone -  Back again for my quarterly Selenium update. First of all - a very big and hearty thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in and has helped in testing and building up Liferay. Also a thank you to those who attended the European Liferay Symposium and expressed interest in our QA processes. Our QA process has grown immensely in the past few months and so...

It's only appropriate for there to be an entirely new look for a pair of new products, no? As I stated at the Liferay European Symposium, Liferay is evolving. We've grown a lot from the small, open source, startup company that we once were years ago. We've forged ahead full steam, brought on a lot of great people, and here we are today: the leading open source portal.  This...

Hi all, it's been a while since I've blogged, and there has been good reasons. Liferay is taking off and we are growing like crazy, and as such, I've gotten less time to blog.But there has been a special occasion for this blog, and that is the official release of Liferay.com, and I wanted to talk a bit about it.So, back in May we started talking about our current website internally...

Lately, Liferay has been following a trend toward externalizing extensibility features as much as possible. The traditional EXT model, while powerful, often proves too complex for many situations, or too intrusive to the product to retrain a high level of maintainability and a comfortable upgrade path because by it's very nature it inadvertently promotes bad programming practices...

A number of important issues have been addressed. 5.1.2 is a highly recommended upgrade. Highlights include: LDAP Synchronization and Authentication JSR 286 Conformance Transaction (Spring Tx) Propogation was not functioning properly Layout Caching handling of Internationalized Websites Removed a situation where database connections may leak under heavy load ...

If you went to the Los Angeles Meetup in August or the European Symposium last week, you already have a leg up on some of our upcoming offerings: Liferay Enterprise Edition and Liferay Social Office. We'll be deploying a new website within the next week which will describe these new offerings and will hopefully answer all your questions and concerns as well.  So stay tuned for...

You've been heard! Out of box SiteMinder integration is here. Computer Associate’s (CA) SiteMinder is a centralized web access management system that enables user authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization, identity federation, and auditing of access to Web applications and portals. Liferay has out of box SiteMinder integration as of recent Liferay 5.1.2...

UPDATE: March 17, 2011 This blog post refers to an old version of ICEfaces (1.8). I would encourage you to try out the ICEfaces 2 versions of these portlets here: http://www.portletfaces.org/portletfaces-bridge/examples ORIGINAL POST FOLLOWS: September 30, 2008 Note: An archive of the webinar is now available on ICEfaces .org in both .wmv and quicktime:...

Thanks to everyone who came to the European symposium. It was extremely fun and enjoyable! Here are some pictures and a summary of what happened.  Here's Bryan Cheung giving his talk about how the UN uses Liferay. Just trying to do our part. Here's Jorge giving his session on leveraging the new portlet specification. Here's HanseMerkur giving a...

Update (Feb 1, 2011): The default permission algorithm from version 6.0+ is now 6. It uses a fast bitmask persistence implementation of RBAC and is functionally equivalent to 5. However, there is only a single table for permissions, and a single table row per resource, per role, and so the data size is significantly smaller (probably at least 1/5 of previous). There is an...

Recently I was again asked how to call a more complex Liferay service using XSL. Here is an example of getting CalEvents from XSL and printing the list. The first thing you might find is that the iteration is rather strange. That's because XSL has no notion of arrays or lists, other than nodelists that is. So we have to get around that by creating a template construct to...

Late last year, we started the process of upgrading our performance testing environments.  Our previous performance environment were basically desktops with limited CPU and memory.  The latest performance environment resembles what we see many of our clients use.  Our configuration is as follows: 1) Web Server: 1 CPU quad core 2.4 Ghz Intel Xeon 2GB memory 2)...